Leading Diverse Communities: A How-To Guide for Moving from Healing Into Action

Based on the National Coalition Building Institute's popular leadership development program, Leading Diverse Communities gives community, campus, nonprofit, and business leaders the tools they need to embrace diversity and encourage their stakeholders to do the same. The book is filled with practical guidance on how to achieve results and provides a simple, skill-oriented guidebook for busy leaders. Leading Diverse Communities distills the National Coalition Building Institute's wisdom into thirty-two concise leadership principles. Each principle is illuminated with theory and a related example, activity, and worksheet that can help develop the skills required to put a particular principle into practice.

Author: Cherie R. Brown, George J. Mazza, National Coalition Building Institute
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 10/22/2004
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 11.45h x 7.70w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780787973698

About the Author
Cherie R. Brown is founder and executive director of the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI). She has led hundreds of leadership training programs for organizations around the world including the U.S. Congress, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the National League of Cities, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and many others.

George J. Mazza is a federal civil rights attorney in Washington, D.C. With NCBI, he developed Diversity and the Law, a program that links legal training with diversity issues.

National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) is a nonprofit leadership training organization that works to eliminate prejudice in communities throughout the world.